Progress Definition
prŏgrĕs, -rəs, prōgrĕs
progressed, progresses, progressing
noun
progresses
A moving forward or onward.
Webster's New World
Forward course; development.
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Advance toward perfection or to a higher or better state; improvement.
Webster's New World
An official journey, as of a sovereign.
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Synonyms:
- onward motion
- advancement
- advance
- procession
- progression
- forward motion
- motion through space
- course of life
- march of events
- lapse of time
- process
- course
- passage
- ongoing
- locomotion
verb
progressed, progresses, progressing
To move forward or onward.
Webster's New World
To move forward toward completion, a goal, etc.
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To advance toward perfection or to a higher or better state; improve.
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To increase in scope or severity, as a disease taking an unfavorable course.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
idiom
in progress
- Going on; under way:
a work in progress.
American Heritage
in progress
- going on; taking place; happening
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Origin of Progress
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From Old French progres (“a going forward"), from Latin prōgressus (“an advance"), from the participle stem of prōgredÄ« (“to go forward, advance, develop"), from pro- (“forth, before") + gradi (“to walk, go").
From Wiktionary
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Middle English progresse from Latin prōgressus from past participle of prōgredī to advance prō- forward pro–1 gradī to go, walk ghredh- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From the noun. Lapsed into disuse in the 17th century, except in the US. Considered an Americanism on reintroduction to use in the UK.
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